Ravi Shankar: a life in music – in pictures

Ravi Shankar: a life in music – in pictures

Ravi Shankar – the man George Harrison called the 'godfather of world music' – has died aged 92. We look back at the last 60 years of the sitar sensation's life, from his early career with Yehudi Menuhin to the Beatles-influencing legend he became

Wednesday 12 December 2012 05.09 EST
First published on Wednesday 12 December 2012 05.09 EST

Shankar and his daughter Anoushka Shankar at the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005. Shankar has another daughter, the Grammy award-winning singer Norah JonesPhotograph: David Levene for the Guardian